Hassek Höyük, Türkiye. Stratigraphy, Architecture and Small Finds. Research Carried Out between 2022 and 2024

Abstract

The aim of the DAI Research Scholarship was the publication of the extant volumes Small Finds and Architecture and Stratigraphy of the site of Hassek Höyük on the Turkish Euphrates. The Uruk Station (Level 5, ca. 3400–3300 BC) at the site, which was destroyed by an earthquake and subsequent fire, is alien to the local development from the time prior to the Sumerian contact (Level 6, about 3500 BC) to the end of the EB IB (Level 0, about 2800 BC). Architecture and small finds of the Uruk Station point to the presence of people genuine of Southern Mesopotamia. The building activity is very dynamic both within Level 5 and during the EB I period. Sealings on pottery vessels are the prominent feature of the EB IB in Hassek Höyük.